01942cam a2200409 i 4500 2357480958 TxAuBib 20150418120000.0 140917s2015||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2014025398 9781620402504 hbk. 1620402505 hbk. 9781620402528 pbk. 1620402521 pbk. (OCoLC)893857896 DLC rda eng DLC IG# UPZ OCLCF OCLCO TxAuBib rda Quinones, Sam, 1958-, author. Dreamland [BOOK] : the true tale of America's opiate epidemic / Sam Quinones. Dream-land : the true tale of America's opiate epidemic. Dream land : the true tale of America's opiate epidemic. New York : Bloomsbury Press, 2015. xii, 368 pages : maps ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Featuring a Mexican town, a drug company, a letter to the editor, pain doctors, and pill mills, a true tale of drug marketing and the search for happiness in an age of excess. Includes bibliographical references and index. In fascinating detail, Sam Quinones chronicles how, over the past 15 years, enterprising sugar cane farmers in a small county on the west coast of Mexico created a unique distribution system that brought black tar heroin--the cheapest, most addictive form of the opiate, 2 to 3 times purer than its white powder cousin--to the veins of people across the United States. 20160105. Drug traffic Mexico. Drug addiction United States. Heroin abuse United States. Oxycodone United States. Narcotics United States. American Dream. Opioid addiction United States.